Jamison was born in 1877, the eldest of three children of Arthur Andrew Jamison, a doctor, and his wife Isabella Green (whose mother, Mary Brandreth Green, was a friend of the novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell). Evelyn Jamison attended
Francis Holland School, in London between 1890 and 1895, from where she gained a place at Oxford to study modern History. Her recollections of her time at Francis Holland were published. After studying art in
Paris, she entered
Lady Margaret Hall in 1898 to study Modern History. and the first beneficiary of the Lady Margaret Research Fellowship, established the previous year by Principal
Agnes Maitland. This enabled her to travel to Italy, studying at the
British School at Rome. In 1907 she returned to Lady Margaret Hall, initially as librarian and bursar, and subsequently as assistant history tutor. From 1921 to 1937 she was history tutor and vice-principal of Lady Margaret, and from 1928 to 1935 University Lecturer in History. She authored several works of history, which were notable for including previously unpublished archival material from the
Norman Kingdom of Sicily. Her final work, an edition of the
Catalogus Baronum, was completed after her death by Errico Cuozzo. After Jamison's death, several of her friends dedicated in her memory a new stone effigy of Lady
Margaret Beaufort, namesake of Lady Margaret Hall, installed in the college chapel to replace an earlier, and by then deteriorated, plaster one. ==Works==